xdg-open with gnome shell

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jun 3 13:44:35 UTC 2011


Adam Pribyl wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Pribyl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anybody know what is a replacement for
>>>> gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
>>>> should work under gnome shell?
>>>>
>>>> For me
>>>> $ xdg-open Pictures/
>>>> which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
>>>>
>>>> xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which
>>>> is missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I
>>>> have many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
>>>> nautilus for the Picture case).
>>>>
>>>> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
>>>> everybody, but me?
>>>
>>> See,
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
>>>
>>> and followup upstream commit,
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
>>> utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c
>>>
>>> Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(
>>>
>>> Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?

> I see now the redirection is changed.
> Well the error is not displayed now, but still it starts konqueror
> instead nautilus.

OK, what you're seeing is likely some other problem then. 

I'll do some more testing on my own in the meantime.

-- Rex



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